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Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Liberated Bride
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The Vagabond
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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1)
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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. ((Revised Edition)) (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)
by C P Cavafy
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